Wissenschaftliche Vorträge (ohne Bewerbungsvorträge)
- “Designing a Handbook of (Critical) Digital Humanities” (with Tatiani G. Rapatzikou & Frank Mehring). Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), “1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited” (Apr. 5, 2024).
- “Dreams of the Wild West: Simulation and Performance in Karl May’s Fictional Travel Narratives.” 11th IASA World Congress 2023 “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives.” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023. Katowice. 07.Sept. 2023.
- »Burgeoning Selves: Transatlantic Dialogue and Early American Bildungsliteratur (1776-1860)«. Universität Graz (1 Dez. 2022).
- »Dave of Doom: Globalization, Nationhood, and the Transformation of the ›Human‹ in U.S. American Eco Science Fiction«. 10th IASA World Congress. »Matters of Life: Human Scapes and Scopes«. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Delhi (digital). 22.Nov. 2022
- »Disney als Kunst: Experimentalkino und Popkultur von Fantasia bis Encanto.« Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern. 20. Sept. 2022.
- »A Poetics of Fact: Historiographic Metafiction and the ›Terrible Truth‹ behind Words in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature.« Internationale Konferenz »Writing Facts.« University of Graz, Centre for Cultural Studies, Doctoral Program »Culture-Text-Act(ion)« (10-12 Nov. 2021).
- »›More than Meets the Ear‹: Denunciation and Aural Aesthetics in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.« Jahreskonferenz der American Studies Association (ASA), »Creativity within Revolt.« Panel »Cultures of Denunciation.« San Juan, Puerto Rico (durchgeführt als Online-Event) (11.-14. Okt. 2021).
- »Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermediality and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia.« Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL, Lehrveranstaltung »American Culture in a Global Perspective«, organisiert von Frank Mehring (30. Sep. 2021).
- »Von Dumbo zur Eiskönigin – Das Walt Disney-Imperium und die Entwicklung der Zeichentrickklassiker.« Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern (15. Sep. 2021).
- »Coyote Practices – Ecomasculinities in Postmodern North American Literature.« Men, Masculinities, and Earth: Contending with the (m)Anthropocene. Vortragsreihe »Climate Crises, Men, and Climate Justice.« International MenEngage Ubuntu Symposium (25. Feb. 2021).
- »Portable Blackness: Marketing Ethnicities in American Popular Music from Elvis to Eminem.« Universität Leipzig. Webinar (3. Dez. 2020).
- »Daze of Doom: Globalization and the Transformation of National Paradigms in U.S. American Environmental Films.« Keynote Lecture. Konferenz »The Humanities in the Age of Globalization.« Akaki Tsereteli University, Kutaisi, Georgia (1. Nov. 2019).
- »Breathing Words: Affect Theory and the ›Gut Economies‹ of Voices Heard and Unheard.« MLA International Symposium ›Remembering Voices Lost.‹ Lisbon, Portugal (24. Juli 2019).
- »Fancied Emergency: Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Emotional Exceptionalism.« 9th IASA World Congress. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spanien (9. Juli 2019).
- »Islamophobia and Negative Productivity. North Africa as the ›Other‹ in Early American Fiction.« Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (4. Juli 2019).
- »Synecdoche New York 1.0: Masculine Vigor and the National Self in Jack Engle and ›Manly Health and Training‹.« Symposium »Walt Whitman and New York.« 12th Annual International Whitman Week Symposium, Grolier Club (1. Juni 2019).
- »Kings of the Road: Travel, Mobility, and U.S. American Identity«. Interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe »Reisen«. Organisiert von Susanne Knaller, Stephan Moebius, u.a. Univ. Graz (15. Jan. 2019).
- »Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetorics of Islamophobia«. 65. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, »American Counter/Publics«, Freie Universität Berlin (26. Mai 2018).
- »Movie Daze: Hollywood Cinema as Rhizome«. Internationale Konferenz »Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21st Century«. Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo, Canada (12. Mai 2018).
- »›The Walls Are Closing In‹: Surveillance and Spatial Paranoia in the Cube Trilogy.« International Conference The Politics of Space and the Humanities. Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (16. Dez. 2017).
- »What’s in These Names? American Studies, Cultural Politics, and Drama in the Trump Era«. 44. Jahreskonferenz der Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), »›Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Changing Nature of American Studies«. University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies. Österreich (4. Nov. 2017).
- »The Wild Ones: Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination.« Tagung »Literature and the Environment«. Universität Graz (10. Juni 2017).
- »Political Animals: Mister Ed and the Civil Rights Movement.« Jahreskonferenz der Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), »America through the Small Screen«. Innsbruck, Österreich (12. Nov. 2016).
- »›Riddles of the Painful Earth‹: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and the Aesthetic of the Common«. Symposium »Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism«. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, FTSK, Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft in Germersheim, Deutschland (8. Juli 2016).
- »›The Grandest of All‹: New York City in U.S. Cultural History«. Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Deutschland (14. Juni 2016).
- »Urban and Spatial Theory«. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung »Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften«. Univ. Graz (16. Juni 2015).
- »Time Ravel: History, Metafiction, and Immersion in Stephen King's 11/22/63«. PCA National Conference. New Orleans (3. April 2015).
- »›Not a puzzle so arbitrarily solved‹: Queer Sensibility and the Enigma of the ›Other‹ in Alice Munro's Early Short Fiction«. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien. Grainau (7. Feb. 2015).
- »Der Zauber des Anfangs: Amerika und das Motiv des kontinuierlichen (Neu-)Beginns«. Antrittsvorlesung. An der Universität Graz, Meerscheinschlössl (3. Okt. 2014).
- »Open City, Closed Space: Urban Aesthetics in U.S. American Literature and Culture«. Gastvorlesung an der Università Ca’ Foscari, Venedig (29. Sep. 2014).
- »A Farewell to the Senses? Hemingway, Remarque, and the Visceral Reconstruction of World War I«. Symposium »North America, Europe and the Cultural Memory of the Great War«. Univ. Graz (21. Juni 2014).
- »Transcultural Spaces in North America«. Austrian Consulate General, New York (29. Apr. 2014).
- »The American in Chains: Enslavement and the Specter of North Africa in Early U.S. Barbary Narratives«. Institut für Amerikanistik, Universität Innsbruck (25. Nov. 2013).
- »›Paste the West‹: Or, How America Was Invented in Kötzschenbroda«. Konferenz »Europe and Its Worlds«, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (16. Okt. 2013).
- »The American Revolution and Its Other: Indigenous Resistance as Performance«. Konferenz »Rage, Rebellion, Revolution: Different Faces of Social Protest in Literature«. Społeczna Akademia Nauk, Warzawa, Polen (24. Mai 2013).
- »Postcolonialism and Performance Theory: Mimicry, Specularity, and Resistance in William Apess's Writings«. Jahreskonferenz der American Studies Association (ASA). San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (17. Nov. 2012).
- »›Boy, that was fun‹: Female Agency and the Performance of Gender in Loreta Janeta Velazquez’ The Woman in Battle (1876)«. 59. Jahrestagung der DGfA »American Lives«. Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2. Juni 2012).
- »The Algerine Dilemma: How North Africa became a Focal Point of U.S. Cultural Self-Fashioning in the 1780s and 90s«. Internationale Konferenz »Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective«. Universität Leipzig (27. April 2012).
- »Striking Camp: Carnivalized Masculinity in the Early James Bond Movies«. Universität Wien, Österreich (2. Dez. 2011).
- »Is It ‘Cause It’s Black? America’s Romance with Ethnic Hybridity«. Jahreskonferenz der Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), »Is It ‘Cause It’s Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture«. Salzburg, Österreich (5. Nov. 2011).
- »Indigenous Myths and Cultural Identity in Canadian Independent Cinema«. Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (12. Mai 2011).
- »The American Sentimental Novel as Cross-Atlantic Fantasy«. Harvard University. History of American Civilization Program. Cambridge, Mass., USA (22. Mrz. 2011).
- »Open City, Closed Space: Metropolitan Aesthetics in American Literature from Brown to DeLillo«. University of Massachusetts, Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH), Boston, Mass., USA (21. Mrz. 2011).
- »›Where no man has gone before‹: Die ›seltsamen neuen Welten‹ in der amerikanischen Science-Fiction«. Ringvorlesung Gendermythen. Universität Siegen (14. Dez. 2010).
- »Sex, Lügen und Video-Clips: Szenarien krisenhafter Männlichkeit in der Populärkultur«. Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung Narrative der Krise. Universität Siegen (29. Nov. 2010).
- »Transatlantic Odysseys: Self-Formation and Liminal Urban Space in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple (1791/94) and Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1850)«. Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces. Konferenz der International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS), Universität Duisburg-Essen (11.-13. Nov. 2010).
- »›...all the appearances of mere youth‹: Performing the Young Nation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn, or Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799/1800)«. Forever Young? The Changing Images of America. Konferenz der European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Dublin, Irland (26.-29. März 2010).
- »›If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies…‹: Juvenile Rebellion and the Tactile Force of Images in The Catcher in the Rye (1951)«. Forever Young? The Changing Images of America. Konferenz der European Association of American Studies (EAAS), Dublin, Irland (26.-29. März 2010).
- »›A New Dimension of Fear‹: Foucauldian Aesthetics and Paranoid Imagination in the Cube Trilogy«. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Kanada (01. Okt. 2009).
- »Errand into the Wilderness? The Exploration of Space in Edgar Huntly«. 6th Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists. Hamilton, Bermuda, GB (4.-7. März 2009).
- »TransAmerica? Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Period to the Modern Age«. FU Berlin, JFKI (29. Jan. 2009).
- »›The Illusion of a Master Plan‹: De/Reconstructing Borders in English-Canadian Science Fiction«. New Borders in American Studies. Konferenz an der Universität Siegen (14.-15. Okt. 2008).
- »›New Tracks, New Prospects, New Summits‹: Cultural Self-Fashioning and the Reconfiguration of Space in Edgar Huntly«. Sixth Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society. Technische Universität Dresden (09.-11. Okt. 2008).
- »›The Finest Type of Existing Marriage‹: Family and Statehood in Theodore Roosevelt's Writings«. The American Presidency and Political Leadership. 55. Jahrestagung der DGfA, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (15.-18. Mai 2008). (Präsentation).
- »(Re)Mapping the ›New World‹: Queer Imagery and the American Dream in Literature, Painting, Film, and Sports«. Universiät Wien, Österreich (12. Dez. 2007).
- »Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/Gendered? Hybridity and Transculturation from Columbia to Babe Ruth«. Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation. 3rd World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (20.-23. Sep. 2007).
- »A ›Space Divided into Numerous Compartments‹: City and Nature as Metaphors in Early American Literature«. Reconfigurations of American Studies. Internationale Konferenz, The Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA (18.-23. Juni 2007).
- »›Those Eastern Men of the West‹: Frederic Remington’s Fall of the Cowboy and the Aesthetic Reconstruction of the American West«. Annual Conference of the Texas and Southwestern Popular Culture Associations. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (14.-17. Feb. 2007). (Präsentation).
- »›Is It a Boy or a Girl?‹: Aliens, Astronauts, and the Discontinuities of Gender in American Science Fiction«. Lecture series, »Gender und Populärkultur«. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (12. Dez. 2006). (Poster).
- »Rebell im Dienste Ihrer Majestät: Zur Ästhetik der Männlichkeit in den frühen James-Bond-Filmen«. Keynote speech. »Warten auf Bond«. Kulturwissenschaftliche Tagung der Universitäten Bochum und Dortmund (26.-28. Okt. 2006).
- »Traffic Symbols and Mythical Crossroads: Cultural Imagination and Its ›New Usable Pasts‹«. Position Paper. Talk, »Internationalizing American Studies«. DFG Network »The Futures of (European) American Studies«. Gummersbach (14.-16. Juli 2006).
- »Constituting the American Novel: Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly (1799) and the Entrenchment of Print Ideology«. Konferenz der European Association of American Studies (EAAS), »Conformism, Non-Conformism, and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States«. Nicosia, Zypern (07.-10. Apr. 2006).
- »The Pose of a Rebel: Zur Ästhetik des Körperlichen bei James Dean«. Conference »James Dean: Tod, Auferstehung und Verklärung eines Helden«. Atlantische Akademie, Rheinland-Pfalz. Lambrecht (14.-15. Okt. 2005). (Präsentation).
- »Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The American Science Fiction Genre and the Search for a Gender-Free Space«. Vortragsreihe des John F. Kennedy-Instituts der FU Berlin, »Gender – Now?« (11. Juli 2005).
- »›This Is Not an Exit‹: The City as a Labyrinth in Postmodern Literature«. Symposium at the University of Manchester, »Visualizing the City«. Manchester, GB (26.-28. Juni 2005).
- »Fist Fights, Open Throats, and Vomity Cabs: J. D. Salinger’s Visceral Language and the Postwar Rhetoric of Rebellion«. Konferenz »Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s«. University of Trier (16.-18. Juni 2005).
- »Living on the Border(s): Blacks and Gays as the Monstrous Other in 1950s American Literature«. Conference of the Spanish Association of American Studies (SAAS) »Masculinities, Femininities, and Hybridities in U.S. Culture«. Universidad de Jaén, Spanien (17.-19. March 2005).
- »At (Sur)Face Value: Performance, Gamefulness, and Identity Constitution in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho«. Konferenz »Constructing Worlds: Constructivism and the Changing Status of Knowledge«. Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika, Torun, Polen (03.-05. Feb. 2005).
- »The Oriental Sunshine of Her Beauty: Eastern Imagery in Hawthorne’s ›Rappaccini’s Daughter‹«. 51. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), »America and the Orient«. Mannheim (03.-06. Juni 2004).
- »›The Mechanism of the Primitive Fighting Beast‹: Fictions of Technologized Masculinity in Late Victorian America (1880-1920)«. FU Berlin, Bereich für Hochschuldidaktische Weiterbildung (14. Nov. 2003).
- »Vom Deutschamerikaner-Mythos zum Feindbild USA: Amerikakunde im Dritten Reich«. 50. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), »Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany«. München (10.-13. Juni 2003).
- »Ambiguität und Polyphonie in Texten von Henry James und Thomas Pynchon«. FU Berlin, Fachbereich für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften (04. Juni 2003).
- »The Spiritual Quest and the Body: Allen Ginsberg’s ›Breath-Soul‹ and the Corporeal Aesthetics of Beat«. FU Berlin, JFKI (14. Nov. 2002).
- »Mapping the Body of the Fifties: A Visceral Cartography of Postwar America«. FU Berlin, JFKI (08. Nov. 2001).
- »Acting Heroes: Heroic Masculinity and Performative Action in Recent Hollywood Cinema«. Conference »Masculinities«. Englisches Seminar an der Universität Basel, Schweiz (24.-25. Juni 2000).
- »A Twilight of the Gods: History, Subversion, and Utopian Spectacle in Popular Culture«. 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), » Millennial Perspectives«. Technische Universität Dresden (13.-16. Juni 2000).
- »Dandies, Tango Pirates, and Other Members of the ›Decadence Club‹: Homosexualität und Fin-de-Siècle-Kultur«. FU Berlin, JFKI (15. Dez. 1997).
- »The Technology of Manliness. Or, the Virile Powers of Superb Manhood, How Developed, How Lost, How Regained«. 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), »Technology and American Culture«. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (20.-23. Mai 1997).
- »Sexual Dissidence and the Hegemony of ›Heterosexual Knowledge‹«. Konferenz »The Politics of Knowledge« an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg (21.-23. Nov. 1996).
- »Paradigms of ›Male Hysteria‹ in American Turn-of-the-Century Culture«. FU Berlin, JFKI (18. Apr. 1996).
- »The Discourse of ›Masculinization‹ in the American 1890s: Stephen Crane, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman«. Postgraduiertenforum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Universität Dortmund (19.-21. Okt. 1995).
- »New Men –– New Women: Re-Arranging Gender Stereotypes in Contemporary American Culture«. Herbstkonferenz der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin (03.-05. Nov. 1994).
Stefan L. Brandt
M.A.Institut für Amerikanistik
Heinrichstraße 18/I, 8010 Graz